this article starts
"I admit it. Like anyone else with a decent-speed connection to the Internet, I collect a lot of images. For example, a few months ago, I described a program that looks through Yahoo! news images for pictures of Oregon and some of my favorite singing stars.

CANTON, Ohio -- There are 490 female students at Timken High School, and 65 are pregnant, according to a recent report in the Canton Repository.
The article reported that some would say that movies, TV, videogames, lazy parents and lax discipline may all be to blame.
School officials are not sure what has caused so many pregnancies ...

every sentence a gem:There are 490 female students at Timken High School, and 65 are pregnant ...
65 out of 490: that’s 13% or one out of seven.

... that movies, TV, videogames, lazy parents and lax discipline may all be to blame.

movies?
TV?
videogames?
lazy parents?
lax discipline?

I was under the impression that sex would get you pregnant. Probably different in Ohio.

After four nice days the GFX card in the brand new iBook died: The lower third of the screen is covered in vertical stripes. Probably some gfx memory issue.
On hold with Apple. 15 minutes of bad music ahead of me. Sigh.
I hope they just replace the graphics card while I wait. I need those 100GB of harddrive.
And it took me 4 hours to get them transfered to this machine. The official Apple Transfer was showing
me two hours of random progress bars. However in the end it had nothing out of my home directory transfered.
I can not believe that it takes fifteen minutes to get support from Apple. I paid 200 US$ “Apple Care”.
Ok, my gfx card can break in 3 years as well for this kind of money. Still.

The stampede should be a wake up call to the Apple marketing department. How cheap can they make the iBook?
Would people care if they have a G4 with less than a gigHz and ‘only’ 40GB HD ??
Once OS X get’s unbloated it might even work with 128MB RAM.
How cheap is cheap?

For seven years I had this phone number. It was the companies one. Which seemed to be easy and straight forward: Better than dragging two phones around, and most of my calls are business related. Well, there is no such thing as a free lunch:
Changing the phone number over in my name was easy enough. But an international calling plan I can only get after seven months. Which is ridicolous. Nothing short of it. In this case its Cingular, but I would guess all Telcos are the same mind numbing kafkaesk systems. As long things work they are just stupid and expensive. But if you leave the beaten path of the 90% majority then you will get very random service at best.